[Magdalen] Federal court backs law removing religious exemption from vaccinations

[Grace Cangialosi]

Well, on the flight back, I was waved through, as well. I figured they must have thought I looked like I was at least 75! I didn't even have to step into that full-body X-ray machine!

You, OTOH, look much younger than I!

> On Sep 2, 2016, at 10:25 AM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> That's funny, Grace. The last few times I've flown, I've been waved on
> through, despite the fact that I didn't pay for the free check thingy. And
> I'm only a few months older than you!
> 
> On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 10:10 AM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> I got the plain tetanus, as well. I think they said I was too old for the
>> other, and Medicare wouldn't cover it.
>> 
>> (OTOH, when I flew to Boston a couple of weeks ago, they asked my age and
>> made me take off my shoes, because I was too young for the exemption. I
>> said it was nice to know I was too young for something!)
>> 
>>> On Sep 2, 2016, at 9:33 AM, Susan Hagen <susanvhagen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Sib, when I got my last one it was just the plain tetanus.
>>> 
>>>> On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 4:53 PM, Sibyl Smirl <polycarpa3 at ckt.net> wrote:
>>>> Jay, did they give you just a plain tetanus booster, that I wanted, or
>> did
>>>> you have to get the Package Deal shot that I did?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> On 9/1/16 12:49 PM, Jay Weigel wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> I cut myself badly with a kitchen knife earlier this year and it
>> occurred
>>>>> to me that I hadn't had a tetanus shot in probably 10 years, so I hied
>>>>> myself to the urgent care center and got one. Not fun, and it cost me,
>> but
>>>>> worth it anyway. Now I won't have to have one for another 10 years.
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 1:18 PM, Sibyl Smirl <polycarpa3 at ckt.net>
>> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On 9/1/16 7:43 AM, ME Michaud wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> They do, but it's been revised/updated.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> There are videos of babies and small children with whooping cough on
>>>>>>> youtube. Terrifying. Not for the tender hearted.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Whooping cough is of concern in the unvaccinated adult immigrant
>>>>>>> population. There's a television commercial promoting adult
>> vaccination.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> https://youtu.be/T_y3HfRGRek
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> My friends who go to Haiti have been subjectedto boosters and
>>>>>>> vaccinations
>>>>>>> for all kinds of illnesses we North Americans think have been
>>>>>>> eradicated.
>>>>>>> -M
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Wednesday, August 31, 2016, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com
>>>>>>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','gracecan at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Is diphtheria still around? I know whooping cough is--my doctor
>> thought
>>>>>>> I
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> might have had it about three years ago, and a co-worker had it.
>> But I
>>>>>>>> haven't heard of diphtheria in years. Do they still give the DPT
>>>>>>>> vaccination to babies?
>>>>>> I don't know about babies, but I'm pretty sure it's been changed.  I
>> do a
>>>>>> lot of gardening, hate work gloves (except when I'm doing something
>> like
>>>>>> pruning or cutting back with roses, blackberries, anything thorny,
>> when I
>>>>>> really need them to not be shredded within five minutes), so I'm
>> always
>>>>>> getting dirty cuts and abrasions.  The T in DPT is for Tetanus, and
>>>>>> Tetanus
>>>>>> lives in soil, and is very scary if you do get dirt into cuts or
>>>>>> abrasions
>>>>>> as well as punctures.  It doesn't particularly need a human host to
>>>>>> survive
>>>>>> as an organism, so it's not just a matter of being exposed to some
>> other
>>>>>> human who has it.  The "T" part of "DPT" is definitely not permanent,
>> so
>>>>>> you need a booster--the rule of thumb is/was every ten years to be
>> safe.
>>>>>> A
>>>>>> relatively recent time that I was in a doctor's office or Health
>>>>>> Department, it occurred to me that it had been well over ten years
>> since
>>>>>> I'd had a Tetanus shot (The last time I remembered was when my
>> daughter
>>>>>> (now over forty) was a baby), and I'd gotten a tetanus shot myself,
>>>>>> because
>>>>>> I knew I was overdue for one, and just to show her that injections
>> didn't
>>>>>> hurt that much.  Anyway, for some reason, this most recent time, I
>>>>>> couldn't
>>>>>> just get the standard Tetanus shot for a booster, and had to have the
>>>>>> modern version of the DPT, which was called something else and was
>> for a
>>>>>> couple of different things besides Diptheria/Pertussis/Tetanus, just
>> to
>>>>>> get
>>>>>> my tetanus booster.  Maybe they were just out of the solo Tetanus, or
>> it
>>>>>> might be no longer available at all.  I believe that it was the same
>> shot
>>>>>> they give babies now, and Margaret spoke of the revision/update.  Not
>>>>>> being
>>>>>> an AntiVaxxer, and never having had side effects from vaccinations, it
>>>>>> suited me fine to be protected against more things.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Sibyl Smirl
>>>>>> I will take no bull from your house!  Psalms 50:9a
>>>>>> mailto:polycarpa3 at ckt.net
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> --
>>>> Sibyl Smirl
>>>> I will take no bull from your house!  Psalms 50:9a
>>>> mailto:polycarpa3 at ckt.net
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> --
>>> The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among
>>> you; you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the
>>> land of Egypt.
>>> Leviticus 19:34
>>